About this site
A publication about Vietnamese coffee — its beans, its regions, its brewing and its culture. Not a shop, and not a supply chain.
What this is
An independent editorial site about Vietnamese coffee, written in English for readers outside Vietnam.
Its purpose is to treat Vietnam as a serious coffee origin — with its own regions, species, producers, processing methods, brewing tradition and drinking culture — rather than as a novelty that happens to involve condensed milk.
What we claim to know
We research from primary and authoritative sources where they exist: the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service, the Intellectual Property Office of Vietnam, peer-reviewed research, and producer and industry publications. Every page that carries a figure lists where the figure came from and when we looked it up.
Where something is contested, uncertain or simply not well documented, we say so on the page rather than smoothing it over. You will find sentences on this site that read “this is attributed to X, but the attribution is not well sourced”, because that is more useful than a confident invention.
What we do not claim
We have not been to every farm we describe. We do not have relationships with Vietnamese producers, cooperatives or exporters. We do not source, import, roast or sell coffee.
We have not laboratory-tested the products we recommend, and every recommendation on this site says what it is actually based on — usually published specifications and what the brewing method requires.
If you see a claim on this site that implies otherwise, it is an error and we want to know.
On flavour descriptions
When a page says a region’s coffee is “commonly described as cocoa and dark chocolate”, that is a statement about how coffee from that area is typically marketed and cupped — not a promise about a particular bag.
Flavour in coffee varies more by farm, variety, processing and roast than by province. We try to phrase regional descriptions so they carry that caveat, because the alternative is writing sentences that are technically wrong about every individual coffee.
Money
Some links on this site are affiliate links, and we may earn a commission if you buy through them at no additional cost to you. Affiliate relationships do not determine our editorial conclusions, and every commercial page is written so it would still be useful with the links removed.
The full policy is on the affiliate disclosure page, and our editorial standards page sets out the rules we hold ourselves to.
Vietnamese names and diacritics
We keep Vietnamese diacritics in everything readers see: Đắk Lắk, not Dak Lak; cà phê sữa đá, not ca phe sua da. URLs use plain ASCII, because that is what URLs are for.
Vietnamese terms are explained the first time they appear on a page, and then used normally.
Corrections
If something here is wrong — a figure, a place name, a claim about how something is made — we want to fix it. Tell us what the page says, what it should say, and ideally where you got that.
We publish corrections rather than quietly editing, when the change is material.